Joel Price Blog

I will be at Qualcomm’s Brew Conference May 31 – June 2 in San Diego. I am not on a panel or doing anything cool but attending. If I see something of interest I will blog it. Both MLB and NASCAR have a booth, no NFL, nonetheless I will be checking out what they got going on in the mobile wireless space.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that Internet advertising revenues reached a new record of $3.9 billion for the first quarter of 2006. The 2006 first quarter revenues represent a 38 percent increase over Q1 2005 at $2.8 billion and a 6 percent increase over Q4 2005 total at $3.6 billion.

At home broadband users are more likely to create and post user-generated content on the Web, according to the “Home Broadband Adoption 2006,” a report published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

The popular Pro Football Talk (profootballtalk.com) website claims the Chiefs edited a questionable off-season highlight video after Pro Football Talk posted an entry on their site. The site claims the “Chiefs have crossed the line” and calls on the NFLPA to “scrutinizing the video very carefully.”

Pro Football Talk has increasingly become popular with fans and loves to stir controversy.
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I have always thought that an intern with a NFL team will try to do something like this. I would assume most teams discourage any employee from publicly discussing work-related matters on blogs or in message boards. I wonder if some of you have policies in place to discourage employees or interns from such “behind the scenes” reporting.

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ON the first day of his internship last year, Andrew McDonald created a Web site for himself. It never occurred to him that his bosses might not like his naming it after the company and writing in it about what went on in their office.

For Mr. McDonald, the Web log he created, “I’m a Comedy Central Intern,” was merely a way to keep his friends apprised of his activities and to practice his humor writing. For Comedy Central, it was a corporate no-no — especially after it was mentioned on Gawker.com, the gossip Web site, attracting thousands of new readers.

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New research says 1.4% of wireless users are subscribing to mobile TV.

More than 2 million wireless service users subscribe to mobile TV, according to research released from Telephia’s newly formed audience measurement panel for mobile TV.
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It’s the idea of actively getting users to become active participants in the development of your site.

The Rise of Crowdsourcing
Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D.

This goes way beyond just plopping some “community-generated” content onto your site. It means regarding your community as a viable source of content. Can a NFL team site take advantage? Having a team message board is a start but is their more or something better?

Here’s a great how-to list on how to create and publish video podcasts in 3 Steps. What teams are doing video podcasts? Eagles, who else?

How TagWorld and other next-generation social networks could feed your business–and maybe even change the world. (Thanks to Pat Coyle for sending this article)
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As broadband and wireless take over, NBA.com is scoring in traffic according to Fast Company.

NBA’s senior vice president of interactive services, Brenda Spoonemore must get a whole new generation of fans hooked on hoops. Ironically, that means changing how the sport she fell in love with is presented. Showing two-and-a-half-hour games helped the NBA grow into a $3 billion-a-year monster. (Thanks to Pat Coyle for sending this article)